Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

[Michael Hampicke]

2012/8/13 Daniel Troeder <daniel@×××××××××.com>

> On 13.08.2012 15:16, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > - about 20GB
> > - 100.000 directories
> > - about 2 million files
> >
> > The system has 2x Intel Xon Quad-cores (Nehalem), 16GB of RAM and two
> > 10.000rpm hard drives running a RAID1.
> 1st thought: switch to SSDs
> 2nd thought: maybe lots of writes? -> get a SSD for the fs metadata
> 3rd thought: purging old files with "find"? your cache system should
> have some kind of DB that holds that information.
>
>
1: SSDs are not possible atm. The machine is in a data center abroad.
2: Writes are not that much of a problem at this time.
3: Well, it's a 3rd party application that - in theory - should take care
of removing old files. Sadly, it does not work as it's supposed to be,
While time passes the number of orphans grow :(